I encountered this problem as well on a 64bit Arch Linux box using GCC 4.4.
I was able to compile successfully on the same system using GCC 3.4.6 and by not running multiple make jobs (-j switch).
CC=/usr/bin/gcc-3.4 CXX=/usr/bin/g++-3.4 ./configure
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I encountered this problem as well on a 64bit Arch Linux box using GCC 4.4.
I was able to compile successfully on the same system using GCC 3.4.6 and by not running multiple make jobs (-j switch).
CC=/usr/bin/gcc-3.4 CXX=/usr/bin/g++-3.4 ./configure